Doctor Says It Is 'Already Too Late' To Prevent Gaza Starvation

The media is starting to acknowledge that Israel is systematically starving the people of Gaza. They're still tiptoeing around the topic, but they're starting to cover it, as we saw on Morning Joe today.

"Three Israeli military officials familiar with the conditions in Gaza tell the New York Times Palestinians in the territory face widespread starvation unless access to aid is restored within weeks. Israel has insisted on its blockade on Gaza, which has been in effect since early March, does not threaten civilians despite famine warnings from the U.N.," Mika Brzezinski said.

"Joining us now, Doctor Aqsa Durrani. She's a board member of Doctors Without Borders, and she just returned to the U.S. from an assignment in Gaza working at a field hospital. Can you tell us what you saw in that hospital?"

"What I saw children was the manifestation of these inhuman policies. Children who were starving and hungry already. And in the ICU where I worked, even early on in the siege, we had a one-year-old infant who had presented with burns resulting from an airstrike, and at that point, the cost of food was already prohibitive for vulnerable families," Dr. Durrani said.

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